The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-24
PERSONAL.
Macon Telegraph.

JOSEPH CHAnRERLAIN has been married twice.
and is now q widower.
SECRETARY AND Mrs. LAMAR will go to Macon
for the Christmas holidays.
SENATOR CocKRELL, of Missouri, is one of the
most successful Changers in Congress.
THE Maharajah of Barado has spent $500 900
in various stores during his three weeks stay in
Paris.
CHARLES DICKENS while in Illinois will visit
the grave of his brother jeffrey, who is buried
at Moline.
A BUST of Mr. Parnell, the gift of a Mr. Can't
well to Gov. Hill, has been placed in the ExeclI-
tive Mansion at Albany.
VIscoUNT KABAYAMA, Admiral of the Jana
nese Navy. with his staff, has gone to Newport
to examine our war ships.
A SEVERE CRITIC says that Mrs James Brown
Potters hands are 'knuckly, almost rawboned
They are reddiSh-brow in color, too.'
CORNELIUS CoUGHIIN died at Grand Rapids
Mich, a few days ago, at the age of 101 years
He was tailor, and followed his trade to the
day of his death.
ROSWELL p. FLOWER has been quite i'll for
some days but his friends say that he is now re-
covering and will engineer his perennial boom
again next year.
SECRETARY LAMAR says the first three books
he remembered reading in his childhood are
"Franklin's Autobiography, Rollins His
tory" and "Plutarch's Lives"
TIE family of John K Scott, of Roaring Creek
W Va, consisting of himself. his wife, and
eight sons, weigh collectively :. 43S pounds-an
average of nearly pa pounds each.
PRoF. DRUMMoND, the bright young Scotch
man who has been making visit to some of the
leading American colleges. says that to him
their most remarkable feature is their Chris
tan tone,
Mrs. CLEVELAND has number of old college
friends as guests at the White House this week
They are Miss Kin9sford of Oswego; Miss
Severance, of Cleveland and Miss Alexander, of
Bridgeport.
MRS. MARY A. LIvERMoRE, the only woman
who was ON the floor of the convention which
first nominated Lincoln. on Sunday severed all
relations with the Republican party in a public
speech in New York. - enceforth " she said
my party shall be that which stands for woman
suffrage and prohibition"
HARRY OLIVER, of Pittsburg. the great iron
master of the American Birmingham started a
clerk of the humblest type, grew to be head of
came within vote of being United States Sena-
tor, failed for million, then paid il off and is
again prosperous, though he is not As years old
Col. w. H. YOUNG, of anywhere and every.
where but principally of the Hobbies and cafes
of Washington. is one of the picturesque rem
nants OF the war. Every one In the capital
knows the Colonel. He has a claim against the
government. Most people that hang around the
Treasury and Congress as psrsistently as Mr.
Young are in the same category, but the Col.
onel has written big book about his demand
He wants 100000, and TO confess the truth he
wants 1t badly He raised regiment in Ken
lucky for the army and paid all the expenses
himself He was evidently richer then than he
is to-day. The regiment disappeared some
where among the Pennsylvania troops when il
got into the field, and the Colonel has spent ali
the years since in hunting where IL went to- and
urging the payment Of his 100000.